The Government has confirmed plans to bring 200 additional permanent emergency beds into use by December 18th, however Mr Flynn warned that people will die unless an emergency intervention is made now.

“We can’t take these people off the streets and what we are seeing is a lack of sleeping bags on our own end; we are looking for support in regard to that,” he said.

“But unless we actually open up buildings and we get people off the streets, we are going to see deaths on the street over the next couple of weeks.”

The latest survey from the Dublin Regional Homeless Executive (DRHE) found a total of 184 people were sleeping rough across the Dublin region on the night of November 7th.